Friday, February 22, 2013

His wife is his half-sister

Today's bad advice comes from Slate about the brave new world of lesbian reproduction:

Q. Nasty Surprise: When my wife and I met in college, the attraction was immediate, and we quickly became inseparable. We had a number of things in common, we came from the same large metropolitan area, and we both wanted to return there after school, so everything was very natural between us. We married soon after graduation, moved back closer to our families, and had three children by the time we were 30. We were both born to lesbians, she to a couple, and me to a single woman. She had sought out her biological father as soon as she turned 18, as the sperm bank her parents used allowed contact once the children were 18 if both parties consented. I never was interested in learning about that for myself, but she felt we were cheating our future children by not learning everything we could about my past, too. Well, our anniversary is coming up and I decided to go ahead and, as a present to my wife, see if my biological father was interested in contact as well. He was, and even though our parents had used different sperm banks, it appears so did our father, as he is the same person. ...

A: ... I don't see how you can keep this information to yourself. She's bound to sense something off in your behavior and you simply can't say, "I'm struggling with father issues." I think you have to sit her down and show you what you've discovered. Then you two should likely seek out a counselor who deals with reproductive technology to help you sort through your emotions. I don't see why your healthy children should ever be informed of this.

Tell the wife and the counselor but not the kids? This will not work. Gene sequencing is becoming cheap and common, and these kids will show up an inbred freaks, even if they are healthy. They have a right know the consequences of their grandparent lesbian foolishness.

Slate does not verify these letters, and the story is very unlikely, so it is probably fake. I post it for the bad advice, which is serious.